Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids
The Archive of Folk Song: A Bibliography
Compiled by: Joseph C. Hickerson
Publication Date: October 13, 1978
Abrahams, Roger D.
"The Mission of the Archive of Folk Song of the Library
of Congress." Midwest Folklore, volume 11, number 3, Fall
1961, pp. 161-165.
Blackman, Bob.
"Discover the Archive of Folk Song." Folkscene, volume
2, number 11, January 1975, pp. 2-3. Reprinted in Sing
Out!,
volume 23, number 6, January-February 1975, pp. 15-16. Reprinted
in part of South-Central Michigan Folkletter, May 1977, pp. 8-9.
Botkin, Benjamin A.
"The Archive of American Folk Song." Music
Educator's Journal, volume 31, number 1, September-October 1944, pp. 64-65.
"The Archive of American Folk Song: Retrospect and Prospect." Library
of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, volume
2, numbers 3-4, June 1945, pp. 61-69.
Brewster, Paul G.
"The Folksong Record Collection of the Library of Congress." American
Music Lover, volume 1, number 11, September 1944, pp. 15-16.
Brintzenhoff, Keith.
"An Interview with Joe Hickerson." Lehigh
Valley Folksong Society Newsletter, volume 5, number 2, 1975, pp. [4]-[8].
Carneal, Robert B.
"The Reproduction of Cylinder Recordings at the Library
of Congress." The Folklore and Folk
Music Archivist, volume
3, number 3, Fall 1960, pp. [1]-[4].
Coe, Linda C.
Folklife and the Federal Government: A Guide
to Activities, Resources, Funds, and Services. Washington: American Folklife Center,
Library of Congress, 1977. (Publications of the American Folklife
Center, number 1.) "Archive of Folk Song," pp. 84-85.
Connelly, Will H.
"The Library of Congress Recording Laboratory Goes to War." Etude,
volume 62, number 8, August 1944, pp. 452, 477.
Emrich, Duncan.
"Children's Folklore in the Archive of Folk Song." Quarterly
Journal of the Library of Congress, volume 30, number 2, April
1973, pp. 140-151.
"Folklore Section of the Library of Congress." In
Maria Leach, ed., Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary
of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, New York: Funk & Wagnalls
Co., 1949, reprinted 1973, pp. 407-408.
Godrich, John and Robert M. W. Dixon.
Blues & Gospel Records 1902-1942. Revised edition, Londong:
Storyville Publications, 1969.
Green, Archie.
"The Archive of American Folk-Song." JEMF
Quarterly,
volume 10, part 4, number 36, Winter 1974, pp. 157-164.
Griffin, S. K.
"Bicentennial Album of American Folk-Music." Folkscene,
volume 3, number 4, June 1975, p. 12.
Grodsky, Susan J.
"Cylinder and Manuscript: North Carolina Folksongs in the
Robert W. Gordon Collection." JEMF
Quarterly, volume 13,
number 48, Winter 1977, pp. 205-213.
Hickerson, Joseph C.
"American Folksong: Some Comments on the History of Its
Collection and Archiving." In George McCue, ed., Music
in American Society 1776-1976: From Puritan Hymn to Synthesizer,
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1977, pp. 107-117.
"The Archive of Folk Song: Library of Congress." In
Larry Sandberg and Dick Weissman, eds. The
Folk Music Sourcebook,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, pp. 250-251.
"An Inventory of the Bibliographies and Reference Aids
Prepared by the Archive of Folk Songs, Library of Congress." Folklore
Forum, volume 3, number 2, March 1970, pp. 66-69. Also published
in Sing Out!, volume 23, number 6, January-February 1975, p.
16, and in Larry Sandberg and Dick Weissman, eds. The
Folk Music Sourcebook, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, pp. 250-251.
Hickerson, Joseph C. and James R. Smart.
"All That Is Audible: Recent Sound Acquisitions in the Music
Division." Quarterly Journal of the
Library of Congress,
volume 32, number 1, January 1975, pp. 51-61.
Higgins, James.
"Archive of American Folk Songs." Junior
Bazaar, volume
2, April 1946, pp. 148, 179.
Hunt, George.
"Folk Singers: They Preserve American Tunes Which Scholars
Now Treasure." Life, volume 37, number 20, November 15,
1954, pp. 54-57.
Jabbour, Alan and Joseph C. Hickerson.
"African Recordings in the Archive of Folk Song." Quarterly
Journal of the Library of Congress, volume 27, number 3, July
1970, pp. 283-288.
"The Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress." In
1970 Festival of American Folklife, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution, 1970, pp. 43-44.
Kanler, Doris.
"Folk Songs on File: Library of Congress Has Largest Authentic
Collection in the U.S." Washington
Star Pictorial Magazine,
June 26, 1955, pp. 6-7.
Kaufman, Lee Lyons.
"The True Folk Music of America." Musical
America,
volume 65, number 3, February 11, 1945, pp. 12-13, 226.
Kodish, Debora G.
"'A National Project With Many Workers': Robert Winslow
Gordon and the Archive of American Folk Song." Quarterly
Journal of the Library of Congress, volume 35, number 4, October
1978, pp. 218-233.
Korson, Rae.
"The Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress." Folklore
and Folk Music Archivist, volume 2, number 1, Spring 1959, p.
[1]; number 2, Summer 1959, pp. [1]-[2]. Revised version, S.E.M.
Newsletter, volume 4, number 2, March-April 1970, pp. 4-5; Huntsville
Association of Folk Musicians Newsletter, number 29, December
7, 1970, pp. [5]-[7].
Lawless, Ray M.
Folksingers and Folksongs in America: A
Handbook of Biography, Bibliography, and Discography. Revised edition with special
supplement, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965.
Leavitt, Donald L.
"Recorded Sound in the Library of Congress." Library
Trends, volume 26, number 1, July 1972, pp. 53-59.
Library of Congress.
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress. Washington, D.C.:
Library of Congress, 1928 to date.
Check-List of Recorded Songs in the English
Language in the Archive of American Folk Song to July 1940:
Alphabetical List with Geographical Index. 3 volumes, Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1942. Reprint edition, New York: Arno Press, 1971.
Folk Music: A Catalog of Folk Songs, Ballads,
Dances, Instrumental Pieces, and Folk Tales of the United States
and Latin America on Phonograph Records. Revised edition, Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1964.
Provisional Check-List of Disks (Excluding
Primitive Music) in the Archive of American Folk Song in the
Library of Congress.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Conress, 1937.
"Library Preserves Country Heritage." Country
Style,
number 29, March 1978, pp. 7, 12.
Lomax, John A.
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter. New York: Macmillan, 1947. Reprint
edition, New York: Hafner Publishiing Co., 1971.
"Field Experiences with Recording Machines." Southern
Folklore Quarterly, volume 1, number 2, June 1937, pp. 57-60.
Lomax, John A. and Alan.
Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of
Americna Ballads and Folk Songs. New York: Macmillan, 1941.
"Miserable but Exciting Songs." Time, volume 46, number
22, November 26, 1945, p. 52.
Napier, Simon A.
"A Brief Review of the Largest Folk-Song Collection in the
World: The Library of Congress's 'Archive of American Folk-Song.'" Blues
Unlimited, number 21, April 1964, pp. 3-4. Reprinted in Back
Woods Blues, Bexhill-on-Sea: Blues Unlimited, 1968, pp. 29-34.
Parnell, Catherine.
"Children's Song in the Archive of Folk Song." Kodály
Envoy, volume 4, number 3, January 1978, pp. 10-12.
Read, Oliver.
"Recording Laboratory - Library of Congress." Radio
News, volume 32, August 1944, pp. 43-46.
Russell, Tony.
"Emmett W. Lundy's Recordings for the Archive of Folk Song:
A Despcriptive Note." Old Time Music, volume 23, Winter
1976-1977, pp. 13-14.
Seeger, Charles.
"Versions and Variants of the Tunes of 'Barbara Allen.'" Selected
Reports (Institute of Ethnomusicology, UCLA), volume 1, number
1, 1966, pp. 120-157. Reprinted in Charles Seeger, Studies
in Ethnomusicology: 1935-1975, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1977, pp. 273-320.
Spivacke, Harold.
"Archive of American Folk Song." Music
Educator's Journal,
volume 29, number 1, September-October 1942, pp. 29-31.
"The Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress." Proceedings
of the Music Teachers National Association, Thirty-Fifth Series,
1941, pp. 123-127.
"The Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress
in its Relationship to the Folksong Collector." Southern
Folklore Quarterly, volume 2, number 1, March 1938, pp. 31-35.
"A National Archives of Sound Recordings?" Library
Journal, volume 88, number 18, October 15, 1963, pp. 3783-3788.
Spottswood, Richard K.
"The Library of Congress' Folk Music Collection." High
Fidelity, volume 26, number 7, July 1976, pp. 53-55.
[no author] "Den Største Amerikanske Folkemusikksamlingen
Finner De På Kongressbiblioteket." Kulturnytt (Oslo), volume
3, number 31, April 1970, pp. 11-12.
[no author] "Treasury of Song." Time, volume 66, number 3, July
18, 1955, pp. 44-46.
Waters, Edward N.
Annual article describing "Recent Acquisitions of the Music
Division." Quarterly Journal of the
Library of Congress,
number 1 of each volume, January of each year through 1974.
Widerberg, Olle.
"The Library of Congress' Inspelningar På LP." Jefferson,
number 30, 1975, pp. 33-36.
Wiesner, Jerome B.
"The Recording Laboratory in the Library of Congress." Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America, volume 13, number 3, January
1942, pp. 288-293.
Wilgus, D. K.
Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since
1898. New Brunswick,
N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1959.
Williams, John Alexander.
"Radicalism and Professionalism in Folklore Studies: A Comparative
Perspective." Journal of the Folklore
Institute, volume
11, number 3, March 1975, pp. 211-234. Comments by Richard M.
Dorson, pp. 235-239.
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